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Re: Chicago's Assyrians embrace new technology to save ancient language
Posted by Rashad (Guest) - Sunday, June 12 2016, 21:38:46 (UTC)
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Marcello wrote:
>The other day (or night) I came across a clip of Hitchens where he says that the Turks committed a jihad against Armenian Christians. Wish I had saved it.

Hitchens is way off on this one because I have never seen anything from authentic ottoman sources where they used jihad as their word for what was taking place. Any fair minded person can see the Turks were trying to defend their empire as anyone would in their position. The Turks never denied that various Christians died during that time period but they were not carrying out a genocide or else they would have started with the Christians who lived in Istanbul and other big cities. Churches remained open as usual and there were still Christians and Jews working for ottoman government. I have heard and seen politicians "recognize" an Armenian genocide but you hardly see historians involved. I have read some of the works from western historians and I don't see evidence for a genocide. There were no doubt Turkish soldiers who executed male adults and my great grandfather was one of those. As much it would anger me when I would hear the story from my relatives, I know the reason he was killed wasn't because he was Assyrian or Christian but because he had betrayed the Turkish government that paid him 12 gold coins per month.



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